The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 19: May 4 - Aug 16, 2008

The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 19: May 4 - Aug 16, 2008

Dear Squeakers,

welcome to this edition of The WeeklySqueakSummary, an irregular
traffic-dependent report on what's going on in the world of Squeak
based on the WeeklySqueak blog. It's been a rather long time since the
last issue because I've been on parental leave for two months...
anyway, here we go again with a slightly longer e-mail than usual.

Highlights of the past weeks:

First, some updates. Monticello 2 is out [36], and so is Swazoo 2.2
[32]. The former is essentially a complete re-write with an all-new
core versioning mechanism. The latter especially features faster
uploads. The popular "Squeak by Example" book has also been updated -
updated to be available in another language: French [4]!

Some interesting new projects have emerged: at Qwaq, Eliot Miranda is
building an improved Squeak VM called Cog [14]; and what started as a
coursework assignment at HPI to improve some of the functionality of
JSqueak [20] has been turned into a SourceForge-hosted project called
Potato [25]: a Squeak VM implemented in Java. Also an, albeit
different, VM, MagLev supports Ruby on top of GemStone/S [12].
SandstoneDB [28] is a simple OODBMS based on ideas from ActiveRecord
and Prevayler. Algernon [2] helps navigating the Squeak image.

The native widgets side of the universe has interesting news. After a
long time, wxSqueak has been updated [27] - let's hope it's come fully
back to life! SeasideXUL [5] uses the Firefox XULRunner to support
building GUIs, and one of this year's Squeak-related GSoC projects
[26] is SqueakGTK.

Squeak has been ported to two more platforms: the iPhone [16], and WiFiBots [7].

Last but certainly not least, congratulations to the CMSBox team for
winning an UI usability award [35]!